Studios Support Yoga Outreach!

“Karma Yoga is the yoga of selfless action… the offering of our ingenuity, inventiveness, wisdom, love, and connection to humanity.”

Next time you unroll your mat at your favorite yoga studio, encourage your studio or teacher to support yoga outreach and other forms of karma yoga by linking up with YogaActivist.org.

Many yoga studios across the nation have risen to the challenge, supporting yoga outreach and charitable causes. For instance, the Tranquil Space Foundation evolved from Tranquil Space yoga studio with the mission to help women and girls discover their full potential.

The Foundation’s signature program, “Tranquil Teens: Stretch Yourself,” has provided free workshops to teenage girls that combine beginner level yoga with creative and leadership development activities to help build healthy bodies and self-esteem. Tranquil Space studio is active in YogaActivist.org’s mat donation program, offering unused and/or abandoned mats on a monthly basis. These mats have made a much-appreciated contribution to the women’s yoga classes at the Harriet Tubman Homeless Shelter in Southeast Washington, DC. Tranquil Space has also held a monthly class to help raise funds for various charities through its Karma Yoga Program.

If your studio needs help starting a yoga outreach program, or if it’s already engaged in yoga outreach and would like to be featured on YogaActivist.org, let us know!

Hayley Parlen has been using yoga to work with urban youth in an Oakland, CA continuation high school for one and a half years. Recently, she also began teaching yoga to adults in drug rehabilitation centers.

Each week friends and co-instructors Katie Desmond and Jen Smith bring yoga to an underserved community in their own backyard: the Shaw neighborhood in Washington, D.C. Through a grant funded by the Neighborhood Investment Fund, Jen and Katie teach yoga to seniors and children who live in the Lincoln Westmoreland Housing Project. Today they […]